Deformed web materials

US9220638B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• The Procter & Gamble Company · US

Inventors

• John Lee Hammons · Hamilton, US
• Jill Marlene Orr · Monroe, US
• John Joseph Curro · Cincinnati, US
• John Brian Strube · Okeana, US
• Keith Joseph Stone · Lancaster, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Apr 26, 2011
• Grant date: Dec 29, 2015
• Expiry date: Dec 21, 2033

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10T428/24636
• WIPO field: Other special machines
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

Deformed web materials are disclosed. The web materials have discrete deformations formed therein. The deformations may be features in the form of portions of a web with apertures therein, protrusions, depressed areas, and combinations thereof. These features may extend out from the surface on one side of the web, or from both of the surfaces of the web. Different features may be intermixed with one another.